We’re marching to bring attention to the Governor’s response to our nearly 14,000 accumulated communications, articles and polls we gave him two weeks ago, all against the hunt.

Bring an instrument or noise maker, a sign and/or your orange safety vest and get the cars going by at rush hour to honk in solidarity with our mantra, No Bear Hunt in Nevada! Stop the killing now!

Join us as we ask the Governor to clarify how killing a bear will conserve the species? And just how was the process followed when the Washoe County Wildlife Board voted 4:1 against a permanent hunt because the process was not followed?

This is a peaceful march staying on public sidewalks and obeying traffic signs and rights of way as we make our way through downtown Carson, getting signatures and thumbs up from passersby.

Since we saw the Governor just two weeks ago we have gained over 2000 signatures for a whopping 16073 communications against the hunt including online petitions, person-to-person hardcopy signatures and emails to NDoW in the public record against the hunt.

Please help us get more signatures before the big Wildlife Commisison meeting in Reno on 23 September. Can we reach 20,000? Only with your help.

Nevadans, join THE GREAT NOBEARHUNTNV.ORG VIRAL SIGNATURE DRIVE; everyone else, sign our online petitions on our Take Action page. THIS IS NOT OVER YET. Though our bears are being killed in the woods, the hunt is still only a temporary regulation. We are working hard this month to make the case to not make the bear hunt permanent. Help us bring in a wheelbarrow full of signatures three weeks from now!

Bears: Governor Needs to Clarify.

Last week members of NoBearHuntNV.org presented the Governor with a packet including thousands of communications against the hunt, messages from hunters who do not support hunting our bears, numerous polls up to 86% against, and science-based arguments and alternatives.

In response, the Governor stated the process was followed. Yet just a few weeks ago 4 out of 5 Washoe County Wildlife Board members voted against the permanence of the hunt largely because the process was not followed.

“This bear hunt has been rammed down the throats of the public. You didn’t see it coming and neither did we,” said Vice-Chair Rick Smith.

NRS 233B.061 states “The agency shall consider fully all written and oral submissions.” Emails on the record before the vote were 98% against the bear hunt. Chairman Raine mischaracterized them as spam and 50/50. 42 people spoke in person against with 19 supporting. How then is it the process, or indeed even the law for that matter, was followed?

Sandoval’s other argument, “The information this hunt will yield can ultimately aid in the conservation of bears,” is perplexing.

This is a trophy hunt according to the Commissioners themselves. There’s no biological reason for it. Killing our bears has no benefit as they are hardly overpopulated. Nuisances will be created, not curtailed. Poachers are already taking up in our woods with a bear poached on Peavine Mountain last July.

Many of us are at a loss to understand how sport killing up to 20 bears will serve to conserve their numbers.

A month ago the Governor said of the massive public outcry against the hunt that it “is probably an issue [the Commission] will revisit.” NoBearHuntNV.org gave the Governor nearly 14,000 communications against the hunt. We are asking him to review our documentation and revisit the issue as well. The public looks forward to the Governor’s further clarification.